I wrote a post a few weeks back that looked at how Facebook and Twitter compare as traffic drivers. What I didn’t mention in my post is that over the course of the last six to twelve months the amount of traffic driven by both sites has grown exponentially.
Last week at the 140 Conference,...
Continue ReadingMy daughter's math class needed to find examples of periodic behavior and estimate a sine curve to fit the data, both manually and by using a TI-83 calculator. Obvious examples of periodic behavior are average city monthly temperatures and low/high tides. My daughter wanted something a bit more unusual; her teacher suggested looking at data for live births by month in the U.S....
Continue ReadingSearch engines meet social networks in Hunch.com , while Bing.com delivers fewer search results with higher relevance – welcome to decision engines.
Flickr creator Caterina Fake Monday launched Hunch.com, a search engine guiding users to their ideal sites and products for searches on business, travel, shopping and even life advice....
Continue ReadingLike many, I logged on to Facebook at midnight Friday night/Saturday morning to grab my chosen Facebook URL and to reserve some vanity URLs for clients as a way of protecting their brands. I wasn’t alone – within 24 hours of the launch more than 3 million vanity URLs had been claimed. ...
Continue ReadingI was checking out my Facebook news feed today at lunch, and noticed two very different levels of reaction to status updates from two of the pages I am fans of. One of the pages belongs to San Antonio Spurs basketball hero Manu Ginobili and the other is for online retailer Zappos.com. ...
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